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Literary Magazines
Find a home for your poems, stories, essays, and reviews by researching the publications vetted by our editorial staff and listed in the Literary Magazines database. Here you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, and contact information—everything you need to determine which publications match your vision for your writing and your writing life. Use the filters below to find magazines with reading periods that are open now or opening soon (within the next thirty days), accept unsolicited submissions, and match all of your criteria for the perfect publisher of your work.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Tusculum Review fosters a vibrant community for both professional and emerging writers. The editors engage a diverse audience with captivating works across four genres that reflect the complexities of contemporary life.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The Twin Bill is a quarterly literary baseball publication founded in 2020 at the start of the pandemic. The editors celebrate the rich history of the game while also recognizing its vibrant present through essays, fiction, poetry,...
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TYPO is a journal interested in semantics, absurdism, experimentally constrained writing à la Oulipo, visual poetry, asemic texts, and articles and essays on typography, film, surrealism, dada, and design.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Humor, Nonfiction, Short Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry -
Under a Warm Green Linden is a digital journal featuring original poetry, reviews, and interviews. The journal is a project of Green Linden Press, which publishes broadsides, chapbooks, and books of poetry. In accord with their green...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Mar 21Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Translation, Visual Poetry -
The Usawa Literary Review is a biannual English language literary magazine dedicated to feminist literature and writings by and about underrepresented communities. The editors publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, and interviews...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Valiant Scribe is a platform that focuses on faith and social issues. It covers a wide range of topics, including violence against women, forced labor, human trafficking, criminal justice, mental health, climate change, poverty, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Variety Pack tries to live up their namesake! A bedrock of diverse voices, expressing a variety of arts & letters. Open to both genre and literary. Sure there’s an aesthetic, but it’s a broad atlas rather than a narrow stream!
Reading Period: May 1 to Jun 15, Sep 1 to Oct 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
A Velvet Giant is a literary journal for work that exists outside the boundaries of genre.
Reading Period: Mar 15 to May 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Published by Black Sun Lit, Vestiges is a print journal of thematically curated literature, art, and poiesis.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Jun 1 to Aug 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
VIA: Voices In Italian Americana features fiction, essays, poetry, critical studies, and visual works that offer nuanced and singular views of the Italian diasporic experience.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The moon is dynamic, always moving forward, night after night, revitalizing life as it shifts through its phases, a vital piece of this evermoving universe. Work submitted here should represent this. It should move the editors. It should move...
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Waxwing is a literary journal promoting the tremendous cultural diversity of contemporary American literature, alongside international voices in translation. The editors believe that American voices are, at their cores, both...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
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An online literary and poetry journal since 2007, Why Vandalism? features poetry and prose, new writing, speculative fiction, fantasy, science fiction, horror, experimental and sound art, curated from international contributors.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Wild Garlic is a triannual online literary journal produced by the Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group. It publishes women-identified writers from all over. It features courageous, wild writing of all genres. It fosters the full range of voices...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 1, Sep 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Since 1977, Willow Springs has published the finest in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with notable authors including Marilynne Robinson, Stuart Dybek, Aimee Bender, Robert Wrigley, Joyce Carol Oates,...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Word For/Word is open to all types of poetry, prose and visual art, but prefers innovative and post-avant work with an astute awareness of the materials, rhythms, trajectories and emerging forms of the contemporary.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature is a digital, open access, biannual journal of disability poetry, literature, and the arts.
Reading Period: Mar 1 to May 1, Sep 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry -
WordSwell is a quarterly journal that seeks personal essays, stories, poems, videos, artwork, and photography that embody deep, heartfelt honesty. The WordSwell organization was founded by Beat Generation poet Clive Matson in 2008. The...
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World Literature Today is the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, founded in 1927. The editors welcome submissions on contemporary literary and cultural topics addressing any...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Dec 31, Jun 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Poetry, Translation -
Established by combat veterans and maintained by a diverse board of veterans, military spouses, and writers compelled by themes of social justice and human resilience, the Wrath-Bearing Tree publishes essays, reviews, fiction, and poetry...
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The Writing Disorder is a quarterly literary journal devoted to literature, art and culture. Its mission is to showcase new and emerging writers—particularly those in writing programs—as well as established writers. It features new...
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WWPH Writes is looking for poetry and fiction that celebrates, unsettles, and questions the lives in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia areas (DMV) and in the nation.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Yellow Arrow Journal is a biannual publication of creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by writers/artists who identify as women.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 28, Aug 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
